Fumitake Koga

Co-author, with Ichiro Kishimi, of The Courage To Be Disliked — the Socratic-dialogue exposition of Alfred Adler’s individual psychology that Kyle read in 2025 and flagged as a quake book. The book is structured as a conversation between a “philosopher” (the Adlerian) and a “youth,” and Koga is the writer who built that dramatic frame. The afterword captures the book’s origin: when Kishimi told Koga “Socrates’s thought was conveyed by Plato. I would like to be a Plato for Adler,” Koga replied, “Then, I will be a Plato for you, Mr. Kishimi” — casting himself as the scribe who renders Kishimi’s Adlerian teaching into the dialogue form, just as Plato rendered Socrates.

Context: Fumitake Koga is a Japanese professional writer who, with the philosopher Ichiro Kishimi, wrote the international bestseller The Courage to Be Disliked (2013 in Japanese), popularizing Adlerian psychology through a dialogue between a philosopher and a young man.

Where this appears

• The Courage To Be Disliked — co-author and the “Plato” of the pairing; built the philosopher/youth dialogue that frames Kishimi’s Adlerian argument.